INT 10 - VIDEO - READ CHARACTER AND ATTRIBUTE AT CURSOR POSITION AH = 08h BH = page number (00h to number of pages - 1) (see AH=00h) Return: AH = charater's attribute (see below) AL = character Notes: for monochrome displays, a foreground of 1 with background 0 is underlined the blink bit may be reprogrammed to enable intense background colors using AX=1003h or by programming the CRT controller the foreground intensity bit (3) can be programmed to switch between character sets A and B on EGA and VGA cards, thus enabling 512 simultaneous characters on screen. In this case the bit's usual function (intensity) is regularly turned off. SeeAlso: AH=09h,AX=1003h,AX=5001h Bitfields for character's attribute: bit 7 blink bits 6-4 background color 000 black 100 red 001 blue 101 magenta 010 green 110 brown 011 cyan 111 white bits 3-0 foreground color 0000 black 1000 dark gray 0001 blue 1001 light blue 0010 green 1010 light green 0011 cyan 1011 light cyan 0100 red 1100 light red 0101 magenta 1101 light magenta 0110 brown 1110 yellow 0111 light gray 1111 white .